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Waverly Hills Training School for Nurses records

 Collection
Identifier: KORN194

Collection contains a ledger of student records transferred from the Waverly Hills Sanitarium to the Louisville General Hospital School of Nurses.It also contains the report of a LGH committee who reconstructed the curriculum in 1943 so they could supply transcript-like information (‘Proof of Theory and Practice’) needed by the alumnae of Waverly Hills for licensing and continuing education purposes.

Dates

  • 1910-1943

Creator

Extent

.10 linear foot

Biographical / Historical

The Waverly Hills Training School for Nurses in Tuberculosis opened in Jefferson County, Kentucky in September, 1910. Beginning two years later, the trainees affiliated with the Louisville General Hospital School of Nursing for one of their three years. The school closed in 1918 and its last students transferred to LGHSN to complete their training.

Creator

Title
Waverly Hills Training School for Nurses records
Status
Completed
Author
Katherine B. Johnson
Description rules
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the Kornhauser Health Sciences Library Repository

Contact:
Kornhauser Library
500 S. Preston Street
Louisville KY 40292 United States
(502) 852-5766